Your Heavenly Father has given you agency, the ability to choose right from wrong and to act for yourself. While you are here on earth, you are being proven to see if you will use your agency to show your love for God by keeping His commandments.While you are free to choose for yourself, you are not free to choose the consequences of your actions.

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True to the Faith

Agency is essential in the plan of salvation. Lucifer rebelled and “sought to destroy the agency of man” (Moses 4:3).

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The Latter-day Saint Woman: Basic Manual for Women, Part B

Our Father in heaven knew … that man could never gain perfection … without the vital element of … agency” (Lester and Joan Essig, “Free Agency and Progress,” Instructor, Sept. 1964, 342). Agency Requires That There Be Choices In order to use our agency in this life we must have the opportunity to make choices.

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Family Home Evening Resource Book

FOR THE PARENT Our Heavenly Father has given each person the agency or power to choose for himself. Point out that everyone uses agency each day, even if he is not aware of his choices.

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Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood: Basic Manual for Priesthood Holders, Part B

Agency: An Eternal Law Agency is an eternal law. Using Our Agency Certain things are necessary in order for us to use our agency.

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Gospel Principles

Agency Is an Eternal Principle In the premortal life we were free agents. Agency Is a Necessary Part of the Plan of Salvation Agency makes our life on earth a period of testing.

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Teaching, No Greater Call: A Resource Guide for Gospel Teaching

An individual’s decision to study the gospel diligently is a righteous use of agency. We exercise our agency when we choose whether or not we will learn and live the gospel.QuotationRead the following statement by Elder James E. Faust:“Agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan’s plan of force.

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Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood: Basic Manual for Priesthood Holders, Part B

A steward exercises agency in caring for his stewardship. 3. A Steward Exercises Agency in Caring for His Stewardship As children of Heavenly Father, we have the agency to act for ourselves.

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Family Home Evening Resource Book

Agency is the power and freedom to make choices, right or wrong. Children are able to grow the most when they can exercise their agency.

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True to the Faith

Moral agency, the ability to choose and act for ourselves, is also essential in Heavenly Father’s plan. Blessed with the gift of agency, you made important decisions, such as the decision to follow Heavenly Father’s plan.

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2006 Outline for Sharing Time and the Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation: I Will Trust in Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ—Their Promises Are Sure

Agency The ability to choose and act for oneself. Use the term agency rather than free agency to describe our freedom to choose.

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Improving Gospel Teaching: A Leader’s Guide

Each Individual’s Responsibility to Learn the Gospel of Jesus ChristGod has given His children their agency. Agency is the power to choose good or evil—to either partake of the plan of redemption or reject it.To be able to choose good and partake of the plan of redemption, we must learn of the Savior and the doctrines of His gospel.

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Such opportunities come in this life as a result of the righteous exercise of agency, just as foreordination came as a result of righteousness in the premortal existence. Additional references: Alma 13:1–9; D&C 138:53–56 See also Agency; Plan of Salvation

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True to the Faith

In this rebellion against God, Satan “sought to destroy the agency of man” (Moses 4:3). See “Temptation,” pages 174–76.) Additional references: Isaiah 14:12–17; 1 Nephi 15:23–24; 2 Nephi 2:16–18; Moroni 7:12; D&C 10:5; 29:36–40, 46–47; 76:25–29 See also Agency; Sin; Temptation

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True to the Faith

This is an important part of exercising your agency. Additional references: Mosiah 4:1–3; D&C 84:45–47 See also Agency; Light of Christ; Obedience; Temptation

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True to the Faith

Through our righteous exercise of agency and our sincere repentance when we sin, we can come unto Christ and, through His Atonement, prepare to receive the gift of eternal life. Additional references: Genesis 3; Mormon 9:12–14; Moses 4 See also Agency; Atonement of Jesus Christ; Original Sin; Plan of Salvation; Sin

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2008 Outline for Sharing Time and the Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation: I Am a Child of God

I chose to follow His plan (2 Nephi 10:23; Helaman 14:30–31; “Agency,”TTF, 12; Primary 3,lesson 2; Preach My Gospel, 49–50; GP,chapter 4). 4.

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The Latter-day Saint Woman: Basic Manual for Women, Part B

We have the opportunity to make decisions because we have been given agency, or the right to choose (see lesson 2, “Agency and Accountability,” in this manual).

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Gospel Principles

Agency: The ability and freedom to choose good or evil. Devil: A spirit son of God who rebelled against the Father and tried to destroy the agency of man.

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The Latter-day Saint Woman: Basic Manual for Women, Part B

Jesus based His leadership on the principle of agency. Agency is a major principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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